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What Instagram users need to know about Facebook’s security breach

Even if you
never log into Facebook itself these days, the other apps and services you use
might be impacted by Facebook’s latest big, bad news.

In a
follow-up call on Friday’s revelation that Facebook has suffered a security
breach affecting at least 50 million accounts, the company clarified that
Instagram users were not out of the woods — nor were any other third-party
services that utilized Facebook Login. Facebook Login is the tool that allows
users to sign in with a Facebook account instead of traditional login
credentials and many users choose it as a convenient way to sign into a variety
of apps and services.

Third-party
apps and sites affected too

Due to the
nature of the hack, Facebook cannot rule out the fact that attackers may have
also accessed any Instagram account linked to an affected Facebook account
through Facebook Login. Still, it’s worth remembering that while Facebook can’t
rule it out, the company has no evidence (yet) of this kind of activity.

“So the
vulnerability was on Facebook, but these access tokens enable someone to use [a
connected account] as if they were the account holder themselves — this does
mean they could have access other third party apps that were using Facebook
login,” Facebook Vice President of Product Management Guy Rosen explained on
the call.

“Now that we
have reset all of those access tokens as part of protecting the security of
people’s accounts, developers who use Facebook login will be able to detect
that those access tokens has been reset, identify those users and as a user,
you will simply have to log in again into those third party apps.”

Rosen
reiterated that there is plenty Facebook does not know about the hack,
including the extent to which attackers manipulated the three security bugs in
question to obtain access to external accounts through Facebook Login.

“The
vulnerability was on Facebook itself and we’ve yet to determine, given the
investigation is really early, [what was] the exact nature of misuse and
whether there was any access to Instagram accounts, for example,” Rosen said.

Anyone with
a Facebook account affected by the breach — you should have been automatically
logged out and will receive a notification — will need to unlink and relink
their Instagram account to Facebook in order to continue cross-posting content
to Facebook.How to relink your Facebook account and do a security check

To do relink
your Instagram account to Facebook, if you choose to, open Instagram Settings
> Linked Accounts and select the checkbox next to Facebook. Click Unlink and
confirm your selection. If you’d like to reconnect Instagram with Facebook,
you’ll need to select Facebook in the Linked Accounts menu and login with your
credentials like normal.

If you know
your Facebook account was affected by the breach, it’s wise to check for
suspicious activity on your account. You can do this on Facebook through the
Security and Login menu.

There,
you’ll want to browse the activity listed to make sure you don’t see anything
that doesn’t look like you — logins from other countries, for example. If
you’re concerned or just want to play it safe, you can always find the link to
“Log Out Of All Sessions” by scrolling toward the bottom of the page.

While we
know a little bit more now about Facebook’s biggest security breach to date,
there’s still a lot that we don’t. Expect plenty of additional information in
the coming days and weeks as Facebook surveys the damage and passes that
information along to its users. We’ll do the same.

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